Is there any protocols to identify what sort of document MS-408 is?

[conlangyalesbaby]

I don't think this information is currently known.


If it's a natural language, it either has a very rigid word and syllable structure (and a small number of sounds) or the letters do not encode that. I think the "monosyllabic tonal language" theory is the most plausible version of this, but it raises questions given that the book is full of western European cultural images.

If it is a conlang, it's probably not especially similar to German or Latin. In a "low entropy" conlang, we would expect that it takes four or five times as many words for Voynich Writer Guy to get their meaning across.

If it's a cipher, we're not sure what technology was used. It would probably be of higher complexity than common ciphers from the time period. Weirder things have happened. I would expect the construction to feel a lot less artificial than something like the Naibbe cipher, but if it is discovered to mean anything, this is kind of what I'm expecting.

When I see "qokedy qokeedy qokechdy lol qokedy qokeedy qokechdy lol" my immediate thought is "That person is inexactly copying and manipulating symbols from elsewhere on the page.

Is it possible the author used a cipher with the conlang of a known language yet still obscured the language by not using words from that language in it's range at least 90% of it?  This would make people if they stumbled across the cipher to not except it, because most of the language remained unknown.  The low entropy repeating would mean the document does not contain in depth information.